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| Drie |
 Jun 2 2004, 07:41 PM
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Okay, I was re-watching an episode of Friends the other day (The One With All the Embryoes) and the guys were listing all the funky things that the girls do. For example, Chandler told them that Monica can only eat Tic Tacks in even numbers. This got me thinking, what quirky traits do we all have?
Me, I always count the number of steps, regardless of the fact that I KNOW how many steps it takes to get to my office (16). I know this number will never change, and yet, I count them every time.
Anyone else feel like sharing?
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| QuickHare |
Jun 2 2004, 08:23 PM
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I don't know if this really weird, but it keeps the ideas flowing. When I'm presented with numbers (like " 100 things Harry Potter would never say" or " 300 Things Minerva McGonagall Would Never Say"), I tend to always post or make up several to round it up to the nearest round number. For example, if it's on #46, I'll post 47, 48, 49 and 50. Very rarely will I only post one, unless I am that out of ideas.
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| hockeygod |
Jun 24 2004, 02:04 AM
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I tend to group things in fives. And during the hockey season, whatever way I put on my pads and do my warm-ups for our first win is how i do it for the rest of the season.
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| Jerry |
Jul 19 2004, 01:32 AM
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I've got a few: 1) If I see someone licking his thumb while trying to turn a page it drives me up the wall. 2) I'm a perfectionist. Enough said. (It's a nightmare, trust me!) 3) I have this weird desire to disprove formulas. E=MC², The Quadratic Formula, The Pythagorean Theorem, any will do. 
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“Never mind that, look!” the American exchange student exclaimed. “I found the Triwizard cup! It’s mine! All mine! I’ll finally get the fame and glory and honor I deserve!”
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“Come on, Cedric,” Harry sighed. “We’d better take this together. You know, so Draco Malfoy won’t think I’m selfish. I really want to get with him, you know.”
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| hockeygod |
Jul 20 2004, 06:53 PM
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Another of my oddities is that I can't stand to see someone doing math or science wrong. If they are using a formula wrong, I have to keep myself from telling them to move over while I do it the right way.
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Proud Member of the I.S.D.!!! hockeygod I'm a Math Geek and it makes me happy!!! "Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit."~Aristotle"Time is too slow for those who wait, too swift for those who fear, too long for those who grieve, too short for those who rejoice, but for those who love, time is eternity."~Henry Van Dyke"Life is wasted on the living."~Douglas Adams"Everyone is a genius at least once a year. The real geniuses simply have their bright ideas closer together."~Georg C. Lichtenberg
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| Billywig2 |
Sep 17 2004, 08:09 PM
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I don't like my ankle socks to be even, but everything else has to be symetrical. If I do something with one hand, I like to do it with the other as well, if I brush the hair away from one side of my face, I have to brush it away from the other side, even if there isn't any hair there.
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| Ignotus |
Sep 18 2004, 02:49 AM
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| QUOTE (Billywig2 @ Sep 17 2004, 03:09 PM) | | I don't like my ankle socks to be even, but everything else has to be symetrical. If I do something with one hand, I like to do it with the other as well, if I brush the hair away from one side of my face, I have to brush it away from the other side, even if there isn't any hair there. |
Urgh! I know exactly what you mean! And here I was, thinking I was crazy! (Well, if you watched the TV show Monk, you'd think that too. . . ) |
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| nome |
Sep 18 2004, 06:05 AM
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Well, besides the oddities that come with being obbsessive-compulsive (really and truly, although I've managed to slip past the genes with a mile case), something did come up recently...
My brother and I were talking on the phone, and he wanted to know whether the Morris Center Cafeteria was the one by my building in Deseret Towers (we were meeting for lunch), or the Cannon Center. I replied that it was the Morris Center, and that the Cannon was by Helaman Halls. His reply was "Oh, right, they're opposite." Then, chuckling to himself, he started to explain what he meant. I replied that I knew exactly what he meant -- D and C are by one another in the alphabet, so opposite meant that D was with M, which C was with H.
I had though I was the only one who categorized and memorized things that way. He was completely gobsmacked.
Then I related the story to my sister, who replied halfway through that she knew exactly what he'd meant. She does the same thing. Must be in the bloodstream.
...and for a slightly more usual oddity, I eat things really weird. Like hot dogs -- I eat them cold and raw, either eating all the skin stuff first, or biting it lengthwise and eating the insides out. Apples are slightly less disgusting, but I eat it one bite deep round the center, then around on end, then the other. Then I eat the second bite deep round one end, then all round the other, then round the center. By then there's no more apple.
And about the apples... after concluding this was a very weird oddity unique to me (this conclusion was encouraged by my brother), I remarked on it to my brother-in-law, only to learn his entire family eats them the same way.
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| Billywig2 |
Sep 20 2004, 10:15 PM
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Oh. I'm scared of the full moon, too. As in, Totally-freaks-me-out scared, I won't even look out the window or go outside on a full moon. It all comes from a trauma from when I was little, but I don't wanna explain it.
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If I ever found a pot of gold,
I'd buy bottles untold of the nectar of the vines,
'cos I'm gonna die with a twinkle in my eye,
'coz I sung songs, spun stories, loved, laughed and drank wine.
Tomorrow is another day,
The cats are out to play, to play!
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| GinnyBee |
Oct 15 2004, 08:45 PM
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Ok, I can only do my english homework while listening to Hebrew music! Other languages work too, but it's normally Hebrew cause that's what I have the most of. Anything except English. Strange huh? 
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"You know Hobbes, somedays even my lucky rocketship underpants won't help." -Calvin and Hobbes.
I get days like that, but I trying to get used to the whole I'm living on the East Coast and haven't done that since I was six years old and I want to move back to San Fransisco and be with my dad and Grandmother, but instead I'm stuck with my Mom, stepdad, stepsiblings (Only one of which I can half tolerate) and annoying halfsister. But i'm trying to appreciate the things Philadelphia has that San fransisco doesn't, like snow. But that's the only thing I can think of.
And to the question I have been asked many times before on other boards: yes my name REALLY is Ginny, only it's not short for Ginevra or Virginia, it's short for Genevieve (pronounced Gin-eh-veev, not Gen-uh-veev or John-vee-ev, as I'm constantly correcting people, like my stepfather for example)
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